Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar


Location: 544 Campbell Hall
Time: Alternate Tuesdays @ 3:30pm (unless otherwise noted)

Past Seminars: Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004



12 Sep 2006
Fall Welcome: Featuring Snacks

3 Oct 2006
Jason Wright: "Characterizing Exoplanetary Systems: The Search for Solar System Analogs"

10 Oct 2006
Greg Howes: "Magnetized Turbulence in Black Hole Accretion Disks"

24 Oct 2006
John Johnson: "Measuring the Spin-Orbit Alignment of Exoplanetary Systems"
and
Bryan Johnson: "MHD Shearing Box: New Methods and Results"

7 Nov 2006
Brian Metzger: "Protoneutron Star Winds with Magnetic Fields and Rotation:
Consequences for Supernova Diversity, Gamma-Ray Bursts,
and the Galactic Abundance of Very Heavy Elements"
and
Dan Kocevski: "Understanding The X-ray Properties of Gamma-ray Bursts"

21 Nov 2006
Jesse Leaman: "The Nearby Supernova Rate"

28 Nov 2006
Stella Offner: Practice Qual "Numerical Studies of Low Mass Star Formation"

5 Dec 2006
Aaron Parsons: "The Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER):
System Design, Preliminary Results, and Prospects"
and
Nathan Smith: "The formation of SN1987A's nebula, bipolar ring nebulae
around blue supergiants, and implications for SN progenitors"